1. Google Now is also only fully funtional in a limited number of countries, just like Siri.
2. Android 4.1 is now 6 months old and there are no more than 40 million devices featuring Google Now (If we calculate with 400 million Android devices. I doubt that most people with older devices will still use the marketplace/Play anymore regularly, so 400 million devices would be a very high number, i would say it's smaller)
In the last quarter of 2011, Apple sold 37 million iPhones, most of them iPhone 4S.
In the following quarter, Apple sold 35 million iPhones, again, most of them iPhone 4S.
6 months after the release of Siri, 55-60 million devices capable of it.
And of course, there's a reason that the iPhone 4 didn't get Siri, because it lacked the Audience voice recognition technology, which would have made Siri much less usable on an iPhone 4.
The small number of devices with Google Now is not because of technical limitations but because Samsung and other companies are to lazy/cheap to port Android 4.1 to their only a year old devices.
2. Android 4.1 is now 6 months old and there are no more than 40 million devices featuring Google Now (If we calculate with 400 million Android devices. I doubt that most people with older devices will still use the marketplace/Play anymore regularly, so 400 million devices would be a very high number, i would say it's smaller)
In the last quarter of 2011, Apple sold 37 million iPhones, most of them iPhone 4S.
In the following quarter, Apple sold 35 million iPhones, again, most of them iPhone 4S.
6 months after the release of Siri, 55-60 million devices capable of it.
And of course, there's a reason that the iPhone 4 didn't get Siri, because it lacked the Audience voice recognition technology, which would have made Siri much less usable on an iPhone 4.
The small number of devices with Google Now is not because of technical limitations but because Samsung and other companies are to lazy/cheap to port Android 4.1 to their only a year old devices.